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01/20/2011

Gambino Associate Joseph Watts Pleads Guilty

Joseph Watts, a long-time crony of the late Gambino boss John Gotti, has pleaded guilty for hatching a plot to whack Staten Island businessman Fred Weiss who was suspected of cooperating with authorities according to an FBI press release. The plot did not come to fruition, and the feds believe that the 1989 murder of Weiss instead was carried out by the DeCavalcante family. Watts faces up to thirteen years in prison when he is sentenced on April 20.